BIOGRAPHY

Research Focus:

Development Economics, Economics of Entrepreneurship

Education:

PhD in Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professional Experience:

2017.1—2021.8 Assistant Professor, Sichuan University

2021.9—2023.3 Associate Professor, Sichuan University

RESEARCH

Publications:

1. Chuantao Cui and Leona Shao-Zhi Li, High-speed Rail and Inventory Reduction: Firm-level Evidence from China, Applied Economics (SSCI), 2019, 51(25): 2715-2730.

2. Leona Shao-Zhi Li,, Fiona X. Yang, and Chuantao Cui, High-speed Rail and Tourism in China: An Urban Agglomeration Perspective, International Journal of Tourism Research (SSCI),2019, 21(1): 45-60.(Correspondence)

3. Jean Jinghan Chen, Chuantao Cui, Richard A. Hunt and Leona Shao-Zhi Li; External enablement of new venture creation: An exploratory, query-driven assessment of China's high-speed rail expansion, Journal of Business Venturing (SSCI), 2020, 35(2020): 1-19.

4. Chuantao Cui, Leona Shao-Zhi Li, Daoju Peng,Value-added exports and the skill premium: Evidence from China’s international and regional production networks, Pacific Economic Review (SSCI), 2020, 1(2020): 1-25.

5. Chuantao Cui and Leona Shao-Zhi Li; The effect of the US-China trade war on Chinese new firm entry, Economics Letters (SSCI),2021,109846.

6. Zhimin Wang and Chuantao Cui, Job and home dilemma: housing pathways of urban migrants in China, Asian Population Studies (SSCI), 2021: 1-21. (Correspondence)

7. Jin Zou and Chuantao Cui, Bailout Expectation and Debt Risks of Chinese Local Governments: an Evidence Based Study on Quasi-municipal Bonds, Copernicus Journal of Political Studies, 2021,2: 5-31.

8. Chuantao Cui and Leona Shao-Zhi Li, Trade policy uncertainty and new firm entry: Evidence from China, Journal of Development Economics (SSCI), 2023:1-15.

9. Chuantao Cui, Xiao Yang, and Hui Xiong, The Decline of China's Intraregional Market Integration in the Qing Dynasty, one chapter of "Institutional Change and China Capitalism: Frontier of Cliometrics and Its Application to China", ed. by Antoine Le Riche, Antoine Parent and Lei Zhang, 2022, World Scientific(Europe). ISBN:978-1-80061-122-1.

Awards & Honors:

1. Undergraduate Classroom Teaching Excellence Award from Sichuan University

2. Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Guidance Teacher Award from Sichuan University

3. Outstanding Humanities and Social Sciences Talent Award from Sichuan University

4. Important Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences from Sichuan University

5. Teaching Achievement Award - Special Prize and First Prize from Sichuan University

6. Teaching Achievement Award - First Prize from Sichuan Province

TEACHING

Econometrics (Undergraduate), Public Finance (Undergraduate), Entrepreneurial Economics (Undergraduate), Data Analysis and Thesis Writing (Undergraduate), Regional Economic Theory (Graduate), Econometrics for Taxation Graduate)